- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:24:52 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: RDFa Developers <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Martin McEvoy wrote: > Ian, > > Is this the reason *why* xmlns prefixes are not supported in HTML 5.... > > ".... The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve > namespace prefixes. For all of these reasons, use of such entities and > entity references should be avoided or used with extreme care. A > future Level of the DOM may include some additional support for > handling these." > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations > and "...While DOM Level 3 does have support for the resolution of namespace prefixes, use of such entities and entity references should be avoided or used with extreme care." http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Namespaces-Considerations Thanks (dont know why I didn't include that) -- Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/
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